- Title: VM-1094
- Summary: THE BIG PICTURE:
- Description:00:01:20 - "FIRE BRIGADE" (REEL MISSING). DEPICTS A COMBAT SITUATION RANGING FROM A DIVISION-WIDE ALERT TO AN ASSAULT JUMP BY THE 82ND AIRBORNE DIVISION, INCLUDING OTHER UNITS FROM THE XVIII AIRBORNE CORPS. 00:01:27 - MONTAGE- IN SEPTEMBER 1944, IN OPERATION 'MARKET GARDEN' THE LARGEST AIRDROP EVER ATTEMPTED, AN ENTIRE AIRBORNE ARMY IS DROPPED OVER HOLLAND 00:01:29 - LS- SKY FILLED WITH PARACHUTES AND PARATROOPS HITTING THE SURFACE. 00:01:30 - MS- A GI FIRES HIS GRENADE LAUNCHING RIFLE INTO A 2ND STORY WINDOW. A FLAMING EXPLOSION FOLLOWS. 00:03:23 - MS- LONG COLUMNS OF SOLDIERS ON ROAD, A LONG MOTORIZED COLUMNS OF TROOPS ON ROADS, HUGE AMMO DUMPS AND HEAVY CRANES ALONG PIERS HAVE ALL BEEN RULLED OUT BECAUSE OF TACTICAL ATOMIC WEAPONS. 00:04:09 - MS- A CLASSROOM FULL OF GIS WATCH AN INSTRUCTOR COMPARE THE MAKE UP OF THE OLD AIRBORNE DIVISION WITH 17,200 MEN TO THE NEW ONE WITH 11,500 MEN 00:05:21 - MONTAGE- THE NEW 'PANTOMIC' DIVISION AS IT IS CALLED, SHOWS ITS SUPERIOR FIRE POWER BY FIRING MISSILES, ARTILLERY AND OTHER MORE SOPHISTICATED WEAPONS OBLITERATING A TEST SITE. 00:06:17 - LS- A HUGE CARGO OF WEAPONS SLIDES OUT OF THE REAR OF A TRANSPORT PLANE WITH PARACHUTES, FOLLOWED BY PARATROOPS RUNNING AND JUMPING OUT. AS SEEN FROM INSIDE PLANE 00:06:40 - MONTAGE- TROOPS AND VEHICLES LOAD INTO THE REAR OF HUGE NEW CARGO PLANES. LS- HUGE VEHICLES ARE FOLLOWED BY PARATROOPS DROPPING FROM REAR OF PLANE. 00:08:13 - MS- BACK TO BACK PARATROOPS DO A JIGGLE AS THEY MOVE FORWARD READY TO JUMP FROM THE PLANE. 00:09:05 - MS- 2 PARATROOPER JUMPS FROM AN ARMY L-19 LIGHTPLANE 00:09:30 - MS- TANK HITS A LAND MINE AND IS LIFTED OFF THE GROUND. 00:09:44 - CU- NEWSCASTER SPEAKS IN FRONT OF A MIC. TELLING OF AN ATTACK ON FREE NATION BY COMMUNIST STATE IN A SIMULATED SCENARIO CREATING A 'BRUSHFIRE' WAR 00:10:23 - CU- TELETYPE AT FORT BRAGG RECEIVES MESSAGE FROM PENTAGON ALERTING THE AIRBORNE TO GO INTO ACTION CU- PHONE BEING DIALED AND ANOTHER PHONE RINGING 00:10:42 - MS- GI IN COT WAKES UP TO ANSWER THE PHONE, HE CHECKS THE TIME ON HIS ALARM CLOCK. PARATROOPS & HELICOPTERS RESPOND AND ROUT THE 'ENEMY' 00:23:19 - "WHY NATO?" A REPORT ON THE NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION NARRATED BY EDWARD R. MORROW 00:23:24 - EDWARD R. MORROW'S STORY OF NATO (NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION) 00:23:26 - LS- PALAIS DE CHIOLE, NATO'S HEADQUARTERS IN PARIS MONTAGE- MINISTERS FROM 15 NATIONS OF ATLANTIC COMMUNITY INCLUDING SECTRETARY DULLES OF U.S. 00:24:20 - MONTAGE- HAPPY PEOPLES FROM THE LARGE CITIES OF EUROPE CELEBRATING IN THE STREETS AS WWII ENDS. 00:24:39 - MONTAGE- DESTROYED BUILDINGS OF EUROPE AND A CEMETERY WITH WAR DEAD 00:24:52 - MONTAGE- AMERICAN AND RUSSIAN SOLDIERS MEET, KISS AND HUG. 00:25:00 - MS- STALIN, ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILL MEET AT YALTA AND POTSDAM TO DIVIDE THE SPOILS. FDR. BIG 3 00:25:38 - MS- EASTERN EUROPEAN PEOPLE AT THE POLLS. 00:25:41 - MAP OF EUROPE SHOWS THE SPREAD OF THE SOVIET UNION'S INFLUENCE. 00:26:19 - MS- A BRITISH SOLDIER TRIES ON A CIVILIAN CAP AND SMILES AS THE WEST DISARMS LEAVING THE SOVIETS WITH THE MOST POWERFUL FORCE IN EUROPE 00:26:40 - MS- STALIN SALUTES HIS PASSING ARMY IN A MOSCOW PARADE. MONTAGE-FACES OF MOLOTOV, BERIA, MIKOYAN AND OTHER POWERFUL LEADERS IN RUSSIA 00:27:22 - MS- A SAILOR RAISES THE TURKISH FLAG ON HIS SHIP AS TURKEY DEFIED RUSSIAN ATTEMPTS TO GRAB IT'S TERRITORY. 00:27:29 - MS- A DEAD GREEK CIVILIAN LIES SPREAD EAGLE ON THE GROUND AS COMMUNIST START CIVIL WAR. MS- A WOMAN CRIES HYSTERICALLY OVER THE BODIES OF HER LOVED ONES. CU- A LITTLE BOY BEGS FOR FOOD. 00:28:00 - LS- PRESIDENT TRUMAN SPEAKS TO CONGRESS ASKING FOR AIDE TO GREECE AND TURKEY 00:28:30 - LS- CZECHOSLOVAKIAN CITYSCAPE. LS- THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WAVE HANDKERCHIEVES AT THEIR LIBERAL LEADER BENISH WHO WAS QUICKLY DEPOSED BY SOVIET CONTROLLED COMMUNISTS. 00:29:00 - MS- AS STALIN WATCHES, MOLOTOV SIGNS PACT. 00:29:16 - MS- AN ARMY OF CZECH YOUTH MARCH IN PARADE SOVIET STYLE AS REDS TAKE CONTROL. MS- RETIRED PRESIDENT BENISH WALKS AMID THE TREES OF HIS COUNTRY HOUSE 00:29:40 - CU- BODY OF YON MASSERICK LIES IN STATE AFTER HE WAS FOUND DEAD. TRUTH HAD CEASED TO COME OUT OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA. HUGE CROWD, MOST OF THEM CRYING WATCH FUNERAL. 00:30:00 - MS- MAP OF EUROPE SHOWS FURTHER ADVANCE OF COMMUNISM INTO THE WEST, CAUSING THE SIGNING OF THE BRUSSELS TREATY BETWEEN ENGLAND, NETHERLANDS, FRANCE, LUXENBOURG AND BELGIUM. 00:30:50 - MONTAGE- LIGHTS SWITCH IS PULLED AND THE LIGHTS GO OUT IN BERLIN AS SOVIETS BLOCKADE THE WESTERN SECTOR, RESULTING IN THE BERLIN AIRLIFT 00:31:09 - MONTAGE- LOW FLYING CARGO PLANES ABOUT TO LAND IN BERLIN AT NIGHT WITH FOOD AND SUPPLIES. 00:31:43 - MONTAGE- GATES RISING AS THE BLOCKADE ENDS IN EMBARASSMENT TO THE SOVIETS. 00:32:06 - MAP OF NATIONS SIGNING THE NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION (NATO) WHICH INCLUDED, U.S., ENGLAND, FRANCE, CANADA, ICELAND, NORWAY, SWEDEN, LUXENBOURG, ITALY, PORTUGAL AND NETHERLANDS ON AUGUST 4,1949. 00:32:30 - LS- NATIONS LEADERS SIGN TREATY. PRESIDENT TRUMAN IS THERE. MS- SOVIET FOREIGN MINISTER VISHINSKY MAKES A HEATED SPEECH AGAINST THE UNION 00:33:02 - LS- A KOREAN WOMAN SOBS OVER THE BODY OF A LOVED ONE AMID HUNDREDS OF DEAD BODIES STREW ALONG THE GROUND. LS- REFUGEES CROWD A KOREAN ROAD AS THE NORTH INVADES THE SOUTH. 00:33:37 - MS- PRESIDENT TRUMAN SPEAKS TO GENERAL EISENHOWER AT AN AIRFIELD AFTER APPOINTING HIM SUPREME COMMANDER OF NATO. 00:34:00 - AERIAL- CITYSCAPE OF PARIS WITH THE EIFFEL TOWER IN DISTANCE. MS- EISENHOWER'S FACE LOOKING OUT OF THE PORTHOLE OF PLANE. 00:34:16 - MS- IKE IS MET AT AIRFIELD BY NATO GENERALS 00:34:18 - MONTAGE- TRAFFIC AND LANDMARK BUILDINGS IN EUROPEAN CITIES AND PEOPLE AND CHILDREN IN PARKS. 00:34:49 - CU- TURNING BLADES OF A WINDMILL. MS- 2 DUTCH GIRLS IN TRADITIONAL DRESS ICESKATE ON A POND. 00:35:04 - MS- FLAG OF DENMARK ON BUILDING. LS- IKE WAVES FAREWELL TO KING OF DENMARK AT AIRPORT. 00:35:19 - AERIAL- MOUNTAINOUS NORWAY AS SEEN BY IKE FROM PLANE. LS- PICTURESQUE SCENES OF NORWAY'S FARMLAND AND SEACOAST 00:35:28 - LS- BRITAIN'S LANDMARK BUILDINGS,ANOTHER STOP ON EISENHOWER'S WIRLWIND TOUR OF NATO ANTIONS. 00:35:44 - AERIAL- PORTUGAL AS SEEN BY IKE. 00:35:55 - MS- 2 ITALIANS ON ONE MOTORBIKE RIDE DOWN A ROMAN STREET. MS- IKE MEETS WITH ITALY'S ALDO MORO 00:36:08 - LS- A PICTURESQUE LUGENBOURG COUNTRY SCENE AND A STEEL PLANT ANOTHER IKE VISITS. 00:36:21 - LS- CITYSCAPE OF ICELAND AND IT'S FLAG. 00:36:32 - LS- PAN OF CANADIAN COUNTRYSIDE AND INDUSTRIAL CENTERS. 00:37:00 - MS- GENERAL GRUNTHER MEETS IN HIS PARIS OFFICE WITH AN INTERNATIONAL GROUP OF MILITARY MEN. 00:37:40 - MS- MILITARY HATS FROM NATO NATIONS LAY ON A DESK DURING A MEETING. 00:37:50 - MS- GENERAL EISENHOWER CHATS WITH MILITARY LEADERS OF NATO NATIONS INCLUDING HIS OWN GENERALS GRUNTHER AND NORSTAD 00:38:10 - MONTAGE- CIVILIAN MINISTERS OF MEMBERS NATIONS MEET. 00:38:35 - MONTAGE- CANADIAN TROOPS ARRIVE BY SHIP FOLLOWED BY AMERICAN TROOPS AS EUROPE REINFORCES IT'S MILITARY 00:38:45 - LS- WORKERS WITH SHOVELS FEVERISHLY CONSTRUCT AIRFIELDS 00:39:14 - MS- FLAGS OF GREECE, TURKEY AND WESTERN GERMANY ARE ADDED TO THE NATO NATIONS. 00:39:36 - MS- GENERALS EISENHOWER AND RIDGEWAY SALUTE FLAG AS IKE TURNS OVER THE LEADERSHIP TO RIDGEWAY. LS- IKE AND MAMIE WAVE FAREWELL FROM PLANE STAIRS 00:39:45 - CU- GENERALS GRUNTHER AND NORSTADT IN THAT ORDER, FOLLOW RIDGEWAY AS LEADERS OF NATO 00:40:12 - MS- A CLERK PLACES PENS AT THE SPOTS ON A LONG TABLE WHERE EACH OF 15 NATIONS LEADERS WILL SIT. 00:40:26 - MS- ROLLING WAVES OF THE ATLANTIC 00:41:00 - MS- HUNDREDS OF TANKS BEING TRANSPORTED ON RAILWAY FLATCARS CU- A FINGER PUSHES A SWITCH AND A NIKE MISSILE IS FIRED. 00:41:25 - LS- THE ATOMIC CANNON FIRES AND THE ENSUING EXPLOSION AND CLOUD RISES IN THE DISTANCE. 00:41:37 - AERIAL-HUGE SQUARE TABLE FOR THE SUMMIT MEETING WITH THE SOVIETS IN GENEVA. 00:41:42 - MS- PRESIDENT EISENHOWER POSES WITH SOVIET'S BULGANIN, EDEN OF BRITAIN AND FRANCE'S LEADER? 00:42:06 - LS- HUNGARY'S FREEDOM FIGHTERS BATTLE SOVIETS IN THE STREETS. DEAD BODIES LITTER THE STREETS. CU- FACE OF A MOURNING ELDERLY HUNGARIAN WOMAN 00:42:41 - MS- GENERAL NORSTADT WALKS BRISKLY TO A NATO MEETING WITH ANOTHER GENERAL. PRESIDENT IKE'S LIMO PULLS UP AT THE MEETING GROUNDS AND IS MET BY NORSTADT AND OTHER NATO GENERALS. 00:43:23 - MS- PRESIDENT EISENHOWER SPEAKS TO THE CROWD. 00:44:34 - LS- LEADERS OF NATO COUNTRIES,INCLUDING ADENAUER OF GERMANY, ARRIVE FOR A MEETING AT NATO'S PARIS HEADQUARTERS. MS- EISENHOWER AND DULLES ARRIVE. 00:45:38 - LS- THE 15 HEADS OF STATE SIT AT A ROUND TABLE MS- PRESIDENT IKE SPEAKS FROM HIS SEAT. 00:48:42 - LS- A FARMER GUIDES 2 HORSES PULLING A PLOW. 00:49:28 - MS- NATO FLAG BLOWS IN THE WIND. 00:52:49 - "MISSILES ON TARGET" THE STORY OF HOW LONG RANGE MISSILES HIT THEIR TARGETS. FILMED AT WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, NEW MEXICO. 00:52:51 - MISSILES- CU- ELDERLY MAN IN HIS CAR WITH WHITE HAIR BLOWING IN THE WIND PASSES SIGN, 'WHITE SANDS PROVING GROUND' WHERE HIS SON IS STATIONED 00:53:37 - MS- THE MAN PULLS OFF THE ROAD, GETS OUT AND LOOKS AT MOUNTAINS IN THE DISTANCE BEHIND WHICH IS THE PROVING GROUND. CU- FACE OF MAN IN DEEP THOUGHT 00:54:33 - MS- MAN LOOKS AT HIS WRIST WATCH. CU- WRIST WATCH SHOWING 9:30 AM. MS- WALL CLOCK AT PROVING GROUND SHOWING 9:30 AM. CU- GI SYNCHRONIZES HIS WRIST WATCH WITH WALL CLOCK 00:54:53 - LS- 'NIKE' MISSILE IS ROLLED OUT OF HANGAR ON TRAILER WHEELS AND HOOKED UP TO A TRUCK AND DRIVEN TO THE LAUNCHING SITE. 00:56:41 - LS- THE MISSILE IS ATTACHED BY CRANE TO A ROCKET BOOSTER. IT IS LOWERED UNDERGROUND AND TRAP DOORS CLOSE, CONCEALING IT. 00:57:50 - MS- ENGINEERS MEET IN AN OFFICE AND PERUSE THE MISSILE PLANS. 00:58:20 - ENGINEER IN RAIN GEAR, TESTS DELICATE PARTS OF MISSILE, IN A HANGAR, NDER RAIN AND OTHER WEATHER CONDITIONS. MS- A HUGE FAN SIMULATES A TROPICAL HURRICANE DIRECTED AT A MISSILE ON A RACK 01:00:16 - LS- A MISSILE IS RAISED SEVERAL FEET AND DROPPED SUDDENLY IN A CONTROLLED MANNER TO TEST IT'S SURVIVAL DURING A SUDDEN FALL. 01:00:27 - LS- A MISSILE IS HELD FIRMLY IN IT'S LAUNCH PAD AND FIRED IN PLACE, TESTING WHAT HAPPENS AFTER A MISSILE LEAVES THE GROUND. 01:00:39 - MS- ENGINEER IN CONTROL BUNKER LOOKS OUT SMALL WINDOWS AND GIVES ORDERS TO CLEAR THE AREA. A WORKER IN A PROTECTIVE SUIT MAKING ADJUSTMENTS ON MISSILE QUICKLY RUNS FOR COVER. 01:01:13 - CU- ENGINEER MAKING THE COUNTDOWN. LS- THE MISSILE IS FIRED IN PLACE. ENGINEERS INSIDE CHECK GAUGES 01:02:12 - MONTAGE- OSCILLATORS AND OTHER MEASURING DEVICES RECORDS ACTIVITY ON PUNCH CARDS. MS- WOMAN FEEDS PUNCH CARDS INTO LARGE COMPUTER. CU- DATA IS TYPED OUT ON A TELETYPE MACHINE. 01:03:11 - MONTAGE- MEN AND WOMEN IN A CONTROL ROOM WITH WALL-TO-WALL ELECTRONIC MACHINES FEED DATA INTO UNITS AND THEN WATCH A PLOTTING BOARD FOR STATISTICAL RESULTS OF A SIMULATED MISSILE FIRING 01:05:51 - MS- THE TRAP DOORS OF THE MISSILE SHELTER OPENS AND A MISSILE RISES OUT OF THE GROUND. 01:06:40 - MS- GIS WITH EARPHINES IN CONTROL ROOM OF NEARBY BATTERY CONTROL VAN, 01:06:47 - CU- LOUDSPEAKER BLARES OUT, 'X MINUS 20 MINUTES, CLEAR THE AREA OF ALL UNAUTHORIZED PERSONNEL'. GI ARMS THE MISSILE AND A BLACK GI CHECKS IT AGAIN 01:07:33 - LS- MISSILE IS RAISED INTO FIRING POSITION. MS- RADAR ANTENNA ARE REDIED TO TRACK MISSILE. AN ALARM SOUNDS STOPPING THE COUNTDOWN. 01:10:50 - LS- A ARMY LIGHTPLANE SPOTS A CAR IN THE TARGET AREA AND LANDS TO CHECK IT OUT. WOMAN IN CAR IS ASKED TO LEAVE THE AREA. COUNTDOWN RESUMES. 01:10:59 - MS- CIVILIAN IN FORD CONVERTIBLE AND OTHERS ARE STOPPED FROM ENTERING THE AREA BY AN MP. 01:11:40 - MONTAGE- CAMERMAN AIM THEIR CAMERAS TO THE LAUNCH SITE. CU- A GI CROSSES HIS FINGERS AS THE SWITCHES ARE SET FOR FIRING. LS- THE MISSILE IS FIRED. 01:13:59 - CU- GI LIFTS HIS CUP OF COFFEE TO HIS LIPS AS HIS DAD PUTS OUT A CIGARETTE IN AN ASH TRAY. DAD TELLS SON OF HIS CONCERN AS TO THE ACCURACY OF A MISSILE 01:15:26 - MS- THE GI INVITES HIS FATHER TO WATCH A FILM EXPLAINING HOW THE MISSILE HITS A TARGET 01:15:32 - LS- ANTI-TANK MISSILE AND HITS A CLOTH TARGET WAY DOWN RANGE. THE MISSILE IS AGAIN FIRED AND IT MAKES A DIRECT HIT ON A TANK DOWN RANGE. 01:17:22 - LS- CREWMEN OF AN 'HONEST JOHN MISSILE BATTERY FIRE THE MISSILE WHICH HITS A PAINTED CIRCLE DOWN RANGE SQUARELY IN THE MIDDLE 01:17:55 - LS- A 'HAWK' GROUND-TO-AIR MISSILE FIRES AT A JET PLANE AND KNOCKS IT OUT OF THE SKY.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1940
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: VM-1094